This proposition of taxing handsome men will supposedly create a way for “homely” guys to find women, get married, and have babies.

Other than the “wealth gap,” Morinaga sees the “love gap” as a fundamental factor of Japan’s declining birthrate. Therefore, he concludes that if Japan were to tax the ikemen (handsome men) and reduce the taxes of not-so-handsome men, then maybe the country’s economy would be better in a year’s time.

The proposed handsome-men tax would includes doubling the taxes of those unlikely chaps who qualify and reducing the taxes by 10-20% for those who are not so handsome. As for the judging of whether someone is handsome or not, there will be a panel of randomly selected women to decide.

Because they have already enough problems like that. Japan does not have very good family oriented policies.Working women in Japanese society are shunned when they have more than one child. the high cost of living and education does not help either.